So much for the all-seeing eye of Google.
Posts by Sora2566
225 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2022
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google
Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive
Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats
Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure
Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall

Re: For my next trick...
Last time state (or maybe federal?) elections were held where I live (in Australia), the three parties running the seat were invited to a radio debate.
The Liberal candidate declined to attend, but that didn't stop the Labour candidate spending all of their time attacking the Liberal Party despite the interviewer's best attempts.
The Greens candidate, who actually talked about their plans for the seat, won the election.
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption
'Scandal-plagued' data broker tracked visits to '600 Planned Parenthood locations'
Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve

"Signing up to use an app based system"?
I coded a TOTP implementation in my spare time years ago after reading some blogs online. My employer's site was automatically compatible with Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy...
Completely free on our part (I didn't even charge for my time), and my implementation has been largely untouched since being implemented... except that years later the CEO suddenly realized how important it was and mandated that everyone in the business use it.
Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments
Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen
Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours
Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes
Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes
Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right
X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety
Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases
Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels' bad attitude
Law designed to stop AI bias in hiring decisions is so ineffective it's slowing similar initiatives
Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer
Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook
Facial recognition tech has outpaced US law – and don't expect the Feds to catch up
US Supreme Court doesn't want to hear Apple, Epic's gripes about in-app purchases
How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing
OpenAI tweaks its fine print, removes explicit ban on 'military and warfare' use
Uncle Sam tells hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal dollars for you
If you're gonna use AI-made stuff in your game, you better tell us, says Steam
Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors

Pro tip: If someone tells you how much you are going to be paid and what work you are going to do, and you can't say no, then you're an employee, not a contractor.
This rule of thumb thus indicates that most doctors in America are employees of the insurance companies, not the hospitals/practices etc.
Uncle Sam wants to make it clear that America's elections are very, very safe
Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail
Data loss prevention isn't rocket science, but NASA hasn't made it work in Microsoft 365
Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions
Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter'
Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck
FCC reminds US mobile carriers that customer data needs to be protected
Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs
Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge
US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs
China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz
Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

Re: Dear editor
http://www.httpvshttps.com/
11 seconds on http, less than a second on https.
Yes, the real difference is that http can't use http/2... but that doesn't stop it from being the case that if you wanna go fast on the internet, you NEED https.
https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-https-massive-speed-advantage/